Mt Kilimanjaro (1993)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio and USGS

Mt Kilimanjaro, 1993

Some scientists believe the snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone in two decades. Researchers say the ice fields on Africa's highest mountain shrank by 80 percent in the past century. The snow cap formed some 11,000 years ago. The Landsat satellite captured these images of Kilimanjaro February 17, 1993 and February 21, 2000.

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Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    2700

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0037

  • Start Timecode

    01:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:01:11:10

  • Animator

    James W. Williams, Marte Newcombe

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/02/04

  • Scientist

    Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Mt. Kilimanjaro, Snow, Melting, HDTV

  • Data Date

    February 17, 1993

  • Story URL

    stories/kilimanjaro_20021216/index.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular